Automobile hood valley



June 6, 1933. w c RMAN 1,913,074

AUTOMOB ILE HOOD VALLEY Filed Dec. 19, 1932 r Patented June 6, 1933 1 a V y 7 1 NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE g 4 WI LIAM CLARENCE eAnMnn, or ennvnsron, Texas AUTOMOBILE noon VALLEY Application filed December 19, 1932. Serial No. 648,010.

This invention relates to eaves or gutters preceding paragraph are old and well for automobile hoods to protect the ignition known, being usual features universally in system of the automobile against saturation use in practically all automobiles, and form with moisture during prolongedwrains or no part of the present invention but are violent storms. I thus very briefly referred to simply to pro- 55 The primary object of the present invenmote a better understanding of the place tion is toprovide for this purpose an cave, and modeof use of my invention.

gutter or valley which may be sold as a sepa- My invention consists of a body 1 prefrate article and may be applied to automoerably curved or arcuate or gutter form in biles already constructed simply by placing cross section and being slightly less in length 6 the valley-in position and without any need than the distance between the opposed edges to in any way permanently secure the valley of the upper central portions of the flanges to any part of the automobile and also with- D, and the distance between the opposed out any need to in any way modify the conedges of the recesses, sockets or bearings struction of either the valley or the auto- D. Supportingarms i extend in opposite 6 mobile, whereby the valley may be placed directions from the lower portions of the in position by the purchaser without the respective ends of bodyil. Preferablysaid need of the services of a mechanic and withsupporting arms 4; are upwardlyoffset from out any operation involving any possible said lower portions of the respective ends risk of marring the finish of the automobile of body 1, being connected thereto by inhood or adjacent parts. clined portions 3 and preferably extend hor- In the accompanying drawing: I izontally from the respective ends of said Figure 1 represents a conventional View body 1, said supportingarms lpreferably of the top portion of the hood and adjacent being nearly equal in, length to the length d parts of an automobile, the hood being sec of the bcaringsgD respectively and prefertioned along its central hinge and the enably being curved in cross section in acgine and other parts being conventionally cordance with the degree of curvature ofthe shown in side elevation; lower portions of the sockets D" with which Figure 2, a perspective view, broken away, they are to be used. c

of my invention; The body 1 is provided with side flanges 80 Figure 8, a top plan view thereof; 2 extending oppositely outwardly from its Figure 4c, a fragmentary sectional view respective upper edges so as to engage and on line 4-4 of Fig. 5, looking in the direcbear against the opposed inner face of the tion of the arrows; and j top portions of the respective members of Figure 5, a fragmentary sectional view the hood preferably at approxnnately equij on line 55 of Fig. 4, looking in the direcdistant points on opposite sides ofthe axis tion of the arrows. of the hinge rod F and preferably at an Referring now in detail to the drawing, appreciable distancetherefrom to permit an A designates the cowl; B, the radiator; C, unimpeded flow or drainage throughthe the hood; D, the oppositely presented horibody or valley 1 of such water as may find zontal hood supporting flanges extending ingress through the openings in the joints toward each other from the adjacent faces of thehinge. V j j of the cowl and radiator respectively; 1), The deviceofmy invention will of course 4 the usual central recesses, sockets, or bearbe made in different lengths to suit the ings formed in the flanges D for receiving, different makes of cars according to the supporting, and positioning the extreme end distances between the cowl A and the radiaportions of the central hood hinge rod F; tor B thereof. j and E, the usual packing lacings through Preferably the body 1, flanges 2, inclined 50 holes in the respective flanges D. portions {3 and supporting arms 4 will all All parts referred to in the immediately be integral and preferably will all be 100 torso Patent is stamped from suitable resilient sheet metal stock and formed up by suitable sheet metal stamping operations.

To apply the device of the present invention to an automobile it is simply necessary to raise the hood C of the automobile so as to remove the hinge bar F from its bearings or sockets D and to then apply the said de- Vice with the valley uppermost and the supporting arms 4t disposed in the respective sockets or bearings D and thereafter to replace the hood C, when the extreme end portions of the hinge bar F will contact the upper faces of the arms 4 and be supported.

thereby, while the arms 4: in turn will be supported by the upper face of the lower central portions of the respective bearings or sockets D. As thus positioned and supported tie central portion of the valley 1 will be spaced below the opposed lower faces of the interlapped hinge sections or elements of the members of the hood C so that there may be an unimpeded drainage of water through the lower central portion of the body 1, which will be disposed in an inclined position with its front end lower than its rear end whereby the flow of the water will be from the cowl A toward the radiator B, and whereby the water will be discharged from the lower forward end of the body 1 about the inclined portion 3 and against the rear face of the radiator B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let'- 1. A valley for use upon motor vehicles to catch the drip at the hinge connection'of the hood, said valley being of resilient sheet metal with a longitudinally extending body of concave form in cross-section and formed with oppositely outwardly presented longitudinally extending side flanges in operative position pressing against the opposed lower faces of the hood members substantially at equi-distant points from the axis of the hinge, in combination with supporting arms integral with, and upwardly offset from, the lower central portions of the respective ends of the body and respectively extending in opposite directions from their respective ends of said body and adapted to be inserted in, and supported by, the hinge bar bearings and adapted to support, and to be held in position by, the end portions of said hinge bar journaled in said bearings respectively.

2. A valley for use upon motor vehicles to catch the drip at the hinge connection of the hood, said valley having a bodyof concave form in crosssection, and being formed with supporting arms extending lengthwise in opposite directions from the respective ends of the lower portion of said body and in operative position fitting in, and being supported by, the hood cover hinge rod bearings and being gripped between the lower face of the respective end portions of said rod and the opposed faces of the respective bearings, said supporting arms being upwardly offset from said lower portions of the respective ends of said valley whereby the upper face of the longitudinally extending lower part of the valley will be spaced from the adjacent opposed lower portion of the composite approximately cylindrical face of the hinge.

3. A Valley for use upon motor vehicles to catch the drip at the hinge connection of the hood, said valley having a body of concave form in cross-section, and being formed with supporting arms extending lengthwise in opposite directions from the respective ends of the lower portion of said body and in operative position fitting in, and being supported by, the hood cOvcr hinge rod bearings and being gripped between the lower face of the respective end portions of said rod and the opposed faces of the respective bearings.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification at Galveston, Texas, this 10 day of December, 1932.

WILLIAM CLARENCE GARMAN. 

